Alenin Karl Yegorovich

Alenin Karl Yegorovich (22 June 1785-1 February 1814) was a colonel of the Russian Army who was a commander of Cuirassiers. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars and died in the Battle of Montbeliard.

Biography
Yegorovich was born in Minsk (present-day Belarus) in the Russian Empire in 1785, and he became a soldier in the Cuirassiers. Yegorovich fought in the Third Coalition at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, and was a veteran of the campaigns in Poland from 1805 to 1807. In 1814 he was promoted to Colonel during the War of the Sixth Coalition, and was the commander of a Cuirassiers regiment at the Battle of Montbeliard on 1 February 1814. During the battle he was killed in action while leading a charge against French and Swiss troops, but the battle was a Russian victory.